DAY 5 #NAM2025durham 🛰 Its the final day of NAM! Here are the special events for today: 🖼 final chance to see participant artwork around the building 🎨 art room demo at lunchtime 🏆closing ceremony Thank you all for joining us at #NAM2025! We hope you enjoyed!

The Milky Way could have 80 or even up to 100 more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, according to new research from our cosmologists 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/... @royalastrosoc.bsky.social @nam25-durham.bsky.social #NAM2025

Milky Way could be teeming with more satellite galaxies than previously thought - Durham University

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Bright young stars from our local schools and youth groups are lighting up the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social @nam25-durham.bsky.social with stories about space adventures, dancing, art and football! Discover more 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

Interested in learning more about publishing in our journals, including #MNRAS and #RASTI RAS Techniques & Instruments, and attending @nam25-durham.bsky.social NAM 2025 Durham? Come along to the Publishing Workshop tomorrow, Friday 11th July, 13.15-14.00, room TLC113 and meet the team!

We're kicking off our STFC community session discussing the work and future developments of STFC! #NAM2025 #NAM2025durham

Are you interested in the future of UK astronomy and space science? Do you have ideas for how to improve our field? Please come and join us for the STFC Community Session at 2.15pm in TLC042 at #NAM2025durham. ⤵️

DAY 4 #NAM2025durham ☄️ We're over half way through NAM! Here are the special events for today: ⚛️ STFC community session at 2:15pm ⏰️ 3 minutes to inspire thesis presentations 🎙live Supermassive Podcast recording ❓️NAM2025 quiz social

We are over half way through #NAM2025 @royalastrosoc.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social 💫 Here is our incredible conference photo with 100s of the nearly 1000 attendees of NAM! Possibly one of the largest astronomy conference photos ever! We hope you’re having a great week 🪐

DAY 3 #NAM2025durham 🌟 Midweek at #NAM2025 brings one of our busiest days of sessions! Join us for these special events: 🎨 Artwork unveiling in OCW including dance and poetry performances 🎲 board games night in the TLC And reminder to vote for most engaging exhibitor by 5pm!

Thanks to everyone who came to the #NAM2025 Conference Dinner and @royalastrosoc.bsky.social Awards Ceremony! We hope you had a fantastic night! It was such a joy to see so many people joining together and celebrating our community and congratulations to all the award winners!

DAY 2 #NAM2025durham 🌟 The excitement continues today! Join us for these special events: 🌙 Last day to see the Moon Palace observatory 📸 conference photo at 12:45pm 📄 meet the editor session at lunchtime 🍽 NAM conference dinner with RAS awards at the Civic Centre

Some moments from today at #NAM2025durham ✨️ From talks to team sport, what a great way to start the week! What was your favourite part of day 1 of NAM? #NAM2025 #community #sciencethroughconnection

DAY 1 #NAM2025durham 🚀 We have lots to look forward to today! Join us for these special events: • @royalastrosoc.bsky.social bicentennial quilts on display • @ioppublishing.bsky.social lunchtime drinks reception • Moon palace • Cakes for Good • Football tournament • Evening public talk

See #MNRAS papers from all the plenary speakers at @nam25-durham.bsky.social NAM 2025 Durham in our special collection: academic.oup.com/mnras/pages/...

Celebrating the plenary speakers at NAM

MNRAS has been privileged to publish work from the NAM 2025 Plenary Speakers, and we bring together a selection of papers from the speakers in this virtual coll

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If you’re at @nam25-durham.bsky.social this week, check out the North East Astronomy exhibition in TLC39! ✨

✨️ Today's the day! ✨️ Join us from 6pm - 9pm tonight to celebrate the launch of NAM 2025 at our Welcome Reception! There will be drinks and nibbles and a chance to network with other attendees! #NAM2025 #NAM2025durham #community #sciencethroughconnection

Want to learn more about publishing in #MNRAS? Join the publishing workshop at NAM 2025 @nam25-durham.bsky.social on 11 July 2025, from 13.15, TLC113, led by Editor-in-Chief David Flower, Head of Publishing at the RAS Liz Baker, Managing Editor Alice Power and Assistant Editor Helen Klus.

From Moon Palace, a working mobile observatory, to talks about exploding stars, there are lots of free public events at the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social National Astronomy Meeting, hosted by us next week (7 to 11 July)! 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/... #NAM2025 @nam25-durham.bsky.social

Looking forward to the plenary sessions at NAM @nam25-durham.bsky.social and want to know more about the work of the speakers? At #MNRAS we have created a special collection of papers on which the speakers are listed as authors. Visit academic.oup.com/mnras/pages/... @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

We're all set up and ready for #NAM2025durham! We can't wait to welcome nearly 1000 scientists to Durham over the next week to celebrate our amazing astronomy and geophysics community! See you on Sunday for the welcome reception and Monday for the start of the conference!

Friday may be the final day of NAM, but its still full of interesting sessions on all different areas of astronomy, and we'll also be wrapping up NAM with our closing ceremony! Only a few days to go until NAM begins! #NAM2025durham #NAM2025 #community #sciencethroughconnection

On Thursday, as well as our sessions it will be the annual STFC community session! Its also our second public outreach evening including 3 minutes to inspire and Supermassive Podcast live and quiz night for attendees #NAM2025durham #NAM2025 #community #sciencethroughconnection

Midweek continues our incredible variety of sessions covering all kinds of areas of astronomy! In the evening we'll be unveiling new artwork in the astronomy department and joining together to play some board games! #NAM2025durham #NAM2025 #community #sciencethroughconnection

In celebration of NAM @ Durham next week @nam25-durham.bsky.social, #MNRAS has launched a special collection of papers about Durham University Observatory. Find the collection here academic.oup.com/mnras/pages/... @royalastrosoc.bsky.social @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

Our fantastic science programme continues on Tuesday! We'll also be celebrating the conference dinner and @royalastrosoc.bsky.social awards ceremony in the evening! #NAM2025durham #NAM2025 #community #sciencethroughconnection

Monday marks the official launch of NAM 2025! Sessions will begin at 9am on many different areas of astronomy. There is also the NAM football tournament and our first evening of public outreach to look forward to! #NAM2025durham #NAM2025 #community #sciencethroughconnection

Only a few days until NAM gets underway! Join us on Sunday evening for the Welcome Reception - a chance to catch up with old acquaintances and meet new people, all while enjoying some music and drinks! #NAM2025durham #NAM2025 #community #sciencethroughconnection

For those of you attending #NAM2025, we’ll be holding a ‘Meet the Editor’ session at lunchtime on Tuesday 8th July. Pop by the RAS stand for the opportunity to meet #RASTI RAS Techniques & Instruments Editor-in-Chief, Prof Jonathan Tennyson, and grab yourself a sweet treat! @nam25-durham.bsky.social

We're excited to be hosting almost 1,000 leading space scientists at the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social ‪National Astronomy Meeting #NAM2025 next week, 7 to 11 July! Leading up to NAM, discover more about our amazing research into the mysteries of the Universe 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

✨ The Universe is Coming to Durham! 🌌 As part of NAM, join us for two FREE public evenings filled with wonder and cosmic curiosity! Events are FREE, no booking needed! 🔗 Find out more: conference.astro.dur.ac.uk/event/7/page... #NAM2025durham #sciencethroughconnection @royalastrosoc.bsky.social